Overview
- Is the most comprehensive text on obstetric fistula, a major public health and humanitarian issue
- Is the first text that takes a multidisciplinary approach to this neglected tropical disease of pregnancy
- Examines the causes, medical and social consequences, and prevention of obstetric fistula in Africa
Part of the book series: Global Maternal and Child Health (GMCH)
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Obstetric Fistula
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Perspectives and Experiences from Women and Girls with Obstetric Fistula
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Fistula Treatment, Management, and Models of Care
Keywords
- obstetric fistula
- incontinence
- obstructed labor
- prolonged labor
- cesarean section
- childbirth injury
- stillbirth
- maternal death
- fistula prevention
- social reintegration
- stigmatization
- reproductive health
- emergency obstetric services
- poverty
- women's health
- maternal morbidity and mortality
- maternal health
- adolescent marriage
- teenage pregnancy
- pregnancy complications
About this book
This comprehensive resource is useful in understanding the risk factors, epidemiology, and social, psychological, and medical effects of obstetric fistula.
Topics explored include:
- A Human Rights Approach Toward Eradicating Obstetric Fistula
- Obstetric Fistula: A Case of Miscommunication – Social Experiences of Women with Obstetric Fistula
- Classification of Female Genital Tract Fistulas
- Training and Capacity-Building in the Provision of Fistula Treatment Services
- Designing Preventive Strategies for Obstetric Fistula
- Sexual Function in Women with Obstetric Fistula
- Social and Reproductive Health of Women After Obstetric Fistula Repair
- Making the Case for Holistic Fistula Care
- Addressing Mental Health in Obstetric Fistula Patients
- Physical Therapy for Women with Obstetric Fistula
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Africa is designed for professional use by NGOs, international aid organizations, governmental and multilateral agencies, healthcare providers, public health specialists, anthropologists, and others who aim to improve maternal health across the globe. Although the book’s geographic focus is Africa, it may serve as a useful resource for individuals who aim to address obstetricfistula in other settings. The book may also be used as an educational tool in courses/programs that focus on Global Health, Maternal and Child Health, Epidemiology, Medical Anthropology, Gender/Women's Studies, Obstetrics, Global Medicine, Nursing, and Midwifery.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bonnie Ruder, PhD, MPH, CPM holds a PhD in Applied Medical Anthropology and a Master in Public Health in International Health from Oregon State University. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Terrewode Women’s Fund, a US-based non-profit organization; a senior research consultant with the International Fistula Alliance; and sits on the Board of Governors for Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital. She conducts research on maternal health and obstetric fistula and has worked on projects in Uganda, Somalia, The Gambia, Zimbabwe and the USA. Her research focuses on obstetric fistula, residual incontinence post-fistula repair, maternal and infant health, reproductive justice, traditional birth attendants, social justice and systems of oppression, and community-engaged research. Bonnie is a licensed midwife with over 20 years’ experience, working primarily in the USA. She has also attended births in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and at a referral hospital in Soroti, Uganda. Her current research examines the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on gender and maternal health in Uganda.
David A. Schwartz, MD, MS Hyg, FCAP has an educational background in Anthropology, Medicine, Emerging Infections, Maternal Health, and Medical Epidemiology & Public Health. He has professional and research interests in reproductive health, diseases of pregnancy, and maternal and infant morbidity and mortality in both resource-rich and resource-poor countries. In the field of Medicine, his subspecialties include Obstetric, Placental & Perinatal Pathology as well as Emerging Infections. An experienced author, editor, investigator and consultant, Dr. Schwartz has long experience investigating the anthropological, biomedical and epidemiologic aspects of pregnancy and its complications as they affect society, in particular among indigenous populations and when they involve emerging infections. Dr. Schwartz has been a recipient of many grants, was a Pediatric AIDS Foundation Scholar, and has organized and directed national and international projects involving maternal health, perinatal infectious diseases, and placental pathology for such agencies as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and the United States Agency for International Development, as well as for the governments of other nations. He has published 3 previous books on pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality, the first in 2015 entitled Maternal Mortality: Risk Factors,Anthropological Perspectives, Prevalence in Developing Countries and Preventive Strategies for Pregnancy-Related Deaths; a book published in 2018 entitled Maternal Death and Pregnancy-Related Morbidity Among Indigenous Women of Mexico and Central America: An Anthropological, Epidemiological and Biomedical Approach; and in 2019 a book entitled Pregnant in the Time of Ebola. Women and Their Children in the 2013-2015 West African Epidemic. Dr. Schwartz is the editor of the Springer book series Global Maternal and Child Health: Medical, Anthropological and Public Health Perspectives, of which this book is a volume. He has been involved with maternal, fetal and neonatal aspects of such epidemic infections as HIV, Zika and Ebola viruses, and is currently researching these issues with the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Schwartz serves on the Editorial Boards of several international journals and was formerly Clinical Professor of Pathology at the Medical Collegeof Georgia of Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Africa
Book Subtitle: Public Health, Anthropological, and Medical Perspectives
Editors: Laura Briggs Drew, Bonnie Ruder, David A. Schwartz
Series Title: Global Maternal and Child Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06314-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06313-8Published: 20 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06316-9Published: 20 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06314-5Published: 19 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2522-8382
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8390
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 486
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 83 illustrations in colour
Topics: Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Medical Anthropology, Public Health